The Council has accepted the following report and authorized its publication. W. A. Puckner, Secretary. A former report of the Council (Liquid Petrolatum or “Russian Mineral Oil,” Report Council Pharm. and Chem., The Journal, May 30, 1914, p. 1740) called attention to the large number of concerns that were placing on the market liquid petrolatum as a proprietary under coined names. Since then the number of such products has increased. The Council has been requested by several concerns to consider their products put out under proprietary brand names. The rules of the Council affirm that “the application of ‘trade names’ to official or established nonproprietary substances tends to confusion and fosters many abuses.” In accordance with this general ruling, the Council has invariably refused to countenance proprietary names applied to liquid petrolatum. The Council holds that proprietary or coined names for this substance are detrimental to medical progress, since they are sure to foster the impression that the particular product is different from liquid petrolatum. Manufacturers have been advised that there is no objection to distinguishing their products by the addition of their firm name or the initial representing the firm name; for instance, “Liquid Petrolatum, A. B. and Co.” or “Liquid Petrolatum, Smith.” The Council also believes that such designations as “Star Liquid Petrolatum” or “Liquid Petrolatum, Anchor Brand,” may be regarded as unobjectionable, provided that the words “Liquid Petrolatum” are always used in connection with the brand designation and given equal prominence.--(_From Reports of Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1915, p. 127._) SENG Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The Council has adopted the following report and authorized its publication. W. A. Puckner, Secretary. Seng (Sultan Drug Co., St. Louis) is called by the manufacturers: “... a palatable preparation of Panax (Ginseng) in an aromatic vehicle.” Regarding ginseng (_Panax quinquefolia_) the United States Dispensatory, nineteenth edition, page 1603, says: “The extraordinary medicinal virtues formerly ascribed to ginseng had no other existence than in the imagination of the Chinese. It is little more than a demulcent, and in this country is not employed as a medicine.” No discussion of ginseng is to be found in the more recently published books on pharmacology, materia medica and therapeutics, evidently because their authors agree with this estimate. On the other hand, physicians are told through the medium of advertisements appearing in medical journals that Seng is: “An efficient remedy in all affections in which the gastro-intestinal glands need stimulating.